Jesse Rogerson

So just half of the ones.

Okay.

I'm with you.

And then...

The question was, could these lucid dreamers, when hearing the music in their sleep, then start thinking about the puzzle that was attached to that music and try and work on it?

And this is where it started blowing my mind because they even had pre-assigned signals.

So the sleepers in REM sleep were in their lucid dream.

And then signaled to the researchers outside of the dream that I'm now currently working on the problem.

They did like breathing, specific type of breathing through their nose.

So they were lucid dreaming and signaling to the researchers, okay, I know I'm lucid dreaming now, and I'm going to start working on the problem associated with this puzzle.

And so they did this.

And then they all came out of their dreams and woke up in the morning, and then they went back and did the puzzles again.

And they found that for the music that was played to them, for the half of the puzzles, they had a 42% chance of solving it versus 17% for the other half.

A market increase, a 20% increase roughly.

that uh shows that when they were induced to think about the problem while they were sleeping they were able to actually make strides on on solving it some of them even described it as like they they had a dream where they they had a person in their dream where they asked them that person in their dream to help them with the puzzle that they were presented during the the study

It blows my mind that we can, I guess, to use your words, to like hack the brain to take advantage of what we're doing at night.

And what I'm really interested in is how does this affect your REM sleep?

Does this make your REM sleep not as good?

Do you need to be not working on puzzles while you, or is this what REM sleep is for?

When you get deep down into the sleep, your brain works on things and works through problems, not brain teasers, but things that are going on in your life.